I am indebted to Homer Young-Kennedy III and to Marissa Carlisle and
to Anna Taglieri and to Peter Stanford and to Richard Cutttler and to
my daughter Alexandra
Lindsey Platt
and to Arthur Pufford and to Tamara Saitowitz and to Katryn Jehane
Price and to Paula Zolezzi and to Elizabeth Russell and to Christine
Mercado and to my brother Brandon David "Bang" Platt and to Daniel
McAlpine and to Victoria Hamilton-Rivers and to Lawrence Williams and
to Father Avram Brown and to Digne Mellor‑Menkowicz and to Carl
Monroe Cheney and to
my mother Andee Platt
and to Claudette Crump and to Karen Donovan and to
my son Joshua Nelson
Platt
and to Peter Ashken and to Elize Naudé Greeff and to Michael
Schropp and to my nephew David Asher Platt and to Madeline Groneman
and to Anita Lynn Erhard and to Wernher Krutein and to John Anthony
Wheeler and to Dierdre Beck and to Yeiber Cano and to Jacob Mack and
to Joseph Barker and to George Afremow and to Lance Lowenberg and to
my father Asher Manfred
Platt
and to
my son Christian Laurence
Platt
and to Deborah Bowen and to Austin Pardo and to Gail Manley and to
Nahid Kasra and to Benjamin Patten and to Su Ball and to Joshua
Platzky Miller and to Marielle Adegran Rutherford and to Rachael
Hobernicht and to John Stofan and to Deborah Erhard and to Kathleen
Hamernick and to Brian Catlett and to Soldier Of Fortune Magazine and
to
Verizon Wireless
and to Photo Hausmann who inspired this conversation, and to Fred
Gruber and to Susan Shafer and to Anna Taglieri and to
Charlene Afremow
and to
my daughter Alexandra
Lindsey Platt
and to John Frederick "JFH" Hammond and to Sam Hammond and to
Jolin Beth Halstead
and to my sister Anthea "Anth" Sarah Platt Haupt and to the City of
Napa
who contributed material.

Many of the photographs of me in this photo album appear in the same
order, left to right, top to bottom, as they appeared at the end of the
Conversations For
Transformation
website home page. Others which appear in essays rather than on the
home page, don't.

It's often been noted how
futile
it is to hunt butterflies. Once you've captured them, they've lost the
very quality they had which made you want to own them in the first
place: their freedom.

So it is with these
Conversations For
Transformation.
By writing them down I've taken them out of the domain of
transformation
ie out of the domain of the spoken word, out of the domain of
speaking and listening, and put them into a mere
close approximation to
transformation
ie into the domain of the written word, into the domain of
writing and reading. When I write them down they
lose some of the very quality which made them noteworthy in the first
place.